Apple, kohlrabi and blue cheese salad

Tomorrow we celebrate Earth Day! What other way to honor Mother Nature, other than be, at least for one day, more conscious about what and how we eat?

I’m a strong believer in a clean eatingdiet, in buying food locally and from suitable sources, in avoiding processed food, in not wasting the meals and the groceries, and the list could still go on. April 22, 2017 is the best day to reflect more about the way we are eating and the food footprint we are leaving behind, not just for our own well-being, but for our Planet’s too.

I’ve prepared this recipe to honor our Planet, using 80% local ingredients, and from sustainable sources, and this could easily be your lunch box tomorrow or your dinner tonight. Maybe you never thought that preparing your lunch box ahead of time, avoids using unnecessary plastic containers that you buy together with your food and then throw away into the garbage container. Just imagine how many plastic containers are used for just one meal and then thrown away.

Apple, kohlrabi and blue cheese salad

Recipe Type: Salad

Author: Cori Costache

Prep time: 15 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

150 grams green salad

1 small apple

1 small kohlrabi

80 gr blue cheese

1 shallot

a handful of mixed nuts

salt

pepper

2 tsp honey mustard

2-3 tbsp olive oil

lemon juice

Instructions

Wash the salad thoroughly in cold water. Break the leaves in small pieces or cut the with a knife.

Cut the apple and the kohlrabi in small slices, and add them on top of the salad.

Chop the nuts and add them in the salad, along with the thin sliced shallot and the crumbled blue cheese.

Prepare the dressing from the olive oil, mustard and lemon juice. Mix well and add it on top of the salad.